North Greenwich railway station
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| North Greenwich | |
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| Location | |
| Place | North Greenwich |
| History | |
| Opened by | London and Blackwall Railway |
| Platforms | ? |
| Key dates | Opened 1872 Closed 1926 |
| Replaced by | Island Gardens DLR station |
North Greenwich railway station was a railway station in North Greenwich, east London. It was located on the north side of the River Thames near Island Gardens, and is not to be confused with the modern-day North Greenwich tube station, which is located on the south side of the river, a mile downstream on the Greenwich Peninsula, near the Millennium Dome.
It was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway; Millwall Docks was the next station along. It opened on July 29, 1872 (slightly later than the other stations on the branch) and connected with the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, linking it to Greenwich town centre south of the river.
Traffic at the station was always light, and it closed to passenger service in 1926, along with the rest of the MER extension, though goods services continued until the docks closed in the 1970s. The area was heavily redeveloped following the Docklands developments of the 1980s, and most of the Docklands Light Railway between Island Gardens and South Quay reused the old MER route. Island Gardens was built on the site of North Greenwich when the line opened in 1987, though when it was extended to Lewisham in the 1990s much of the site was obliterated in order to put the line into tunnel.
| Disused railway stations of East London |
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EC&TJR: Beckton | Central | Connaught Road | Gallions | Manor Way | North Woolwich | Silvertown ECR/GER: Bishopsgate | Bishopsgate (low level) | Bow Road | Burdett Road | Coborn Road L&BR: Blackwall | Cannon Street Road | Leman Street | Limehouse | Millwall Junction | Millwall Docks NLR: Bow | Broad Street | Old Ford | Poplar | Shoreditch | South Bromley | Victoria Park |
